Thursday, June 23, 2011

gems from gemma: first time visit to the zoo


ready to go to the zoo with grandpa, grandmama, and my toliver cousins.
i had never been to the zoo before and couldn't wait to see all the animals.


daddy and mommy went with us too. one of the best parts of the trip was getting to go in the big church van with everyone.


nolie and cy had fun climbing on the fake statues that were scattered all around the zoo. maya and i had to stay in the stroller the whole time so we didn't get to climb on them...
but we didn't mind too much as long as we could hold hands while we were sitting there.


we even got to play in some fountains that we found there.


we got to get really close to some of the animals. they had a few of the animals like... goats, donkeys, sheep, a funny looking buffalo kind of a thing and a camel inside a fence.


it was a little scary sometimes, because i am just used to jack, not these funny looking animals. my favorite was the camel. mom told me that sometimes when camels are bigger people can actually ride them. the camel we saw was just a baby, so she said we couldn't ride this one.

and guess what grandpa and grandmama got for us...



ice cream!!!

i had never had ice cream before, but i just had to have a little bite of it when i saw everyone else eating it.


grandpa and nolan were nice enough to share some of theirs with me. actually i took more than just one bite.. yummy!! i loved it.

after the ice cream maya and i were getting sort of sleepy. i didn't want to leave to go take a nap, but i guess everything fun has to end sometime.

while maya and cy and i were sleeping on the way home, nolie was playing with mommy's camera and they took some pretty funny pictures.
i guess nolie is going to be a photographer when he grows up.

he can even take self portraits.


thanks so much, grandpa and grandmama for taking us to the zoo...



i can't wait to go back again sometime!!


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